Postmodern painting offers critique without any subject left to be cured
Evidence
This is the sense in which I associated such painting with the term deconstructive, for it constitutes an immense analytic dissection of everything and a lancing of the visual abscess. Whether the operation has therapeutic value — in the sense in which Susan Sontag once evoked a kind of “ecology” of images, an anticonsumerist hunger or water cure for image society — is far from clear. It is in any case difficult to see the function of a concept like “the cure” in the absence of either an individual or a collective subject. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 407
Categorization
- XREF: The dissolution of the subject as cure’s precondition echoes the reader’s aim to map their own cognitive position in the world system — where does critique land if no subject remains to be healed? — connects to: Postmodern realism yields only ideological images, never unmediated reality — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 362; Postmodern painting simulates surrealism’s forms while lacking its psychic charge — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406; Postmodern art’s rejection of form perpetuates repression without release — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 69 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodern realism yields only ideological images, never unmediated reality — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 362; Postmodern painting simulates surrealism’s forms while lacking its psychic charge — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406; Postmodern art’s rejection of form perpetuates repression without release — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 69 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Art resolves real social contradictions through purely formal means
#complicates(0.77) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1774